Alec Milius Spy Series Books 1 and 2: A Spy By Nature, The Spanish Game
This ebook omnibus edition brings together Charles Cumming’s two classic Alex Milius novels, also offering readers a sample of his following novel The Trinity Six.A SPY BY NATUREAlec Milius is young, smart, ambitious and comfortable with deceit. So when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, Alec thinks he’s landed the perfect job for his talents. But working alone, relying on instinct, he’s soon spinning a web of deception that has him caught between his new masters and powerful opponents. For in his new line of work the difference between the truth and a lie can be the difference between life and death. And Alec is having trouble telling them apart …THE SPANISH GAMEAlec Milius quit the spying game six years ago – or so he thought.Living in exile in Madrid, he is lured back into a brutal world of lies and deception by the mysterious disappearance of a prominent politician. Forced to work alone, without the support of his former masters in London, Alec comes face to face with the nightmare of modern terror. And this time there's no-one to call for help…
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Charles Cumming
Alec Milius Spy Series: Books 1 and 2
A SPY BY NATURE and THE SPANISH GAME
HarperCollinsPublishers
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2011
Copyright © Charles Cumming 2011
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2011 ISBN: 9780007432967
Version: 2014-12-16
Contents
Copyright
Extract from A Foreign Country
About the Author
By Charles Cumming
About the Publisher
CHARLES CUMMING
A Spy By Nature
Copyright
Harper
An imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers
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This HarperCollins edition first published 2011
First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd. 2001
Copyright © Charles Cumming 2001.
Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
Cover photographs © Silas Manhood
Extract from The Sportswriter copyright © Richard Ford.
Published in Great Britain by Harvill Press 1986
Extract from The Uses of Enchantment copyright © Bruno Bettelheim.
Published in Great Britain by Thames & Hudson 1976
Extract from Rabbit Redux copyright © John Updike.
Published in Great Britain by André Deutsch 1972
‘Fake Plastic Trees’ Words and Music by Thom Yorke, Edward O’Brien, Colin Greenwood, Jonathan Greenwood and Philip Selway © 1994 Warner/Chappell Music Ltd., London W6 8BS. Reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd.
Charles Cumming asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Source ISBN: 9780007416912
Ebook Edition © July 2011 ISBN: 9780007416905
Version: 2014-12-15
Dedication
For my wife, Melissa
Contents
One: An Exploratory Conversation
Seventeen: The Special Relationship
Epigraph
I remember, in fact, the Lebanese woman I knew at Berkshire College saying to me, after I told her how much I loved her: ‘I’ll always tell you the truth, unless of course I’m lying to you.’
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Author’s Note
Were the events of this story entirely true, they would inevitably breach clauses in The Official Secrets Act. Nevertheless, members of the intelligence community both in London and in the United States may find that they catch their reflection in the account which follows.
–C.C.
London, 2001
PART ONE
1995
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.
